Last two days I have had the following kernel panic twice. Prior to this I have never had a problem. The first time I had the problem I was running YOU and while retrieving the update list the server crashed. I have also included log snippets pertaining to the problem. Kernel Panic: Aiee killing interrupt handler In interrupt handler not syncing. <messege log snippet> WINDOW=5902 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 Oct 24 02:12:20 s3a-www kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:04:75:b1:3d:6c:00:60:49:01:5a:de:08:00 SRC=209.73.225.94 DST=**.**.76.66 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=120 ID=8915 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=54049 W INDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0 Oct 24 02:18:45 s3a-www kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:04:75:b1:3d:6c:00:60:49:01:5a:de:08:00 SRC=65.192.24.190 DST=**.**.76.66 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=104 ID=65496 PROTO=UDP SPT=18200 DPT=137 LE N=58 Oct 24 02:34:38 s3a-www syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Oct 24 02:34:39 s3a-www /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[446]: modprobe: Can't locate module evdev Oct 24 02:34:39 s3a-www /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[446]: modprobe: Can't locate module joydev Oct 24 02:34:43 s3a-www kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 24 02:34:43 s3a-www kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Loaded 11742 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.18. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Loaded 10 symbols from 2 modules. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 00:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x6100. Vers LK1.1.16 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 00:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x6200. Vers LK1.1.16 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www sshd[532]: Server listening on 192.168.1.1 port 22. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www sshd[532]: Server listening on 65.45.76.66 port 22. Oct 24 02:34:50 s3a-www /usr/sbin/cron[713]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Oct 24 02:34:51 s3a-www smpppd[745]: smpppd version 0.73 started Oct 24 02:35:32 s3a-www kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Oct 24 02:35:33 s3a-www kernel: ip_conntrack (512 buckets, 4096 max) Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18 Loaded 11742 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.18. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Loaded 5 symbols from 1 module. klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. <4>Linux version 2.4.18 (root@lnx-s3a-np) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)) #11 SMP Wed Aug 14 01:52:38 PDT 2002 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) <4>On node 0 totalpages: 16384 <4>zone(0): 4096 pages. <4>zone(1): 12288 pages. <4>zone(2): 0 pages. <4>No local APIC present or hardware disabled <4>Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=lnz-2.4.18 ro root=302 <6>Initializing CPU#0 <4>Detected 200.458 MHz processor. <4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 <4>Calibrating delay loop... 399.76 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 61172k/65536k available (1311k kernel code, 3980k reserved, 405k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) <4>Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) <4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) <4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <5>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <4>CPU0: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 <4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.74 usecs. <5>SMP motherboard not detected. <5>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. <4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) <4>All processors have done init_idle <4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0d0, last bus=0 <4>PCI: Using configuration type 1 <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware <6>Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. <6>Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. <6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... <6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 <4>Initializing RT netlink socket <4>Starting kswapd <5>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized <6>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. <4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured <6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled <4>block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 <4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 <4>PIIX3: chipset revision 0 <4>PIIX3: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio <4>hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:273, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <6>hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=13456/15/63, (U)DMA <4>hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>Partition check: <6> hda: [PTBL] [791/255/63] hda1 hda2 <4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found <6>SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann <6>agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 28M <7>agpgart: no supported devices found. <6>[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 <6>[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <3>request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted <6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 <6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP <4>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes <4>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) <6>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM <6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <4>Freeing initrd memory: 562k freed <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ... <4>Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem <4>reiserfs: replayed 1 transactions in 2 seconds <4>Using r5 hash to sort names <4>ReiserFS version 3.6.25 <4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. <4>change_root: old root has d_count=2 <5>Trying to unmount old root ... okay <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed <6>Adding Swap: 192740k swap-space (priority 42) Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. 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